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Raleigh Neighborhood Gets Fresh Food Stand To Help Residents

The food stand.
Inter-Faith Food Shuttle

Some capital city residents are getting access to farm fresh food months after two grocery stores closed in their area.  The Inter-Faith Food Shuttle of Raleigh is operating a weekly food stand in a church parking lot. 

The Raleigh Area Development Authority is helping to fund the shuttle's effort to keep the southeast part of the city from turning into a "food desert".  Cindy Sink is a spokeswoman with the Inter-Faith Food Shuttle.  She says the food stand adds to ongoing efforts.
"We have an urban age educator who is training people in the community to grow their own food for their own consumption but also as micro-enterprise as a way to teach them the skills that they can actually turn into a way of producing income," Sink says.

The food stand will operate on Saturdays through the end of October.  The fruits and vegetables sold at the stand are being provided by farmers who come from the Southeast Raleigh area.

Gurnal Scott joined North Carolina Public Radio in March 2012 after several stops in radio and television. After graduating from the College of Charleston in his South Carolina hometown, he began his career in radio there. He started as a sports reporter at News/Talk Radio WTMA and won five Sportscaster of the Year awards. In 1997, Gurnal moved on to television as general assignment reporter and weekend anchor for WCSC-TV in Charleston. He anchored the market's top-rated weekend newscasts until leaving Charleston for Memphis, TN in 2002. Gurnal worked at WPTY-TV for two years before returning to his roots in radio. He joined the staff of Memphis' NewsRadio 600 WREC in 2004 eventually rising to News Director. In 2006, Raleigh news radio station WPTF came calling and he became the station's chief correspondent. Gurnal’s reporting has been honored by the South Carolina Broadcasters Association, the North Carolina Associated Press, and the Radio Television Digital News Association of the Carolinas.
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